There is no greater satisfaction for an educator or researcher than being able to see the fruits of his or her labor. I know this from experience. Allow me to occupy a few minutes of your time to share a language learning and teaching technique with you that has been showing positive results in my language courses over the past few months.

While correcting a few student essays recently, I encountered several sentences that demonstrate the power of using collocations (搭配) in English. A collocation is defined as “a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocation).